tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post2874019650618982015..comments2023-11-02T06:43:49.663-04:00Comments on Watergate Summer: When The Truth Is Miles Away...enigma4everhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589997090173140019noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-66814309549867209662007-08-25T09:41:00.000-04:002007-08-25T09:41:00.000-04:00I have been reading all of your comments and I kno...I have been reading all of your comments and I know in my heart that all of you speak the truth- and to be honest it is just so nice to see that people have been thoughtful and are still thinking after it is all said and done.....namaste....<BR/><BR/>( mary....I am glad that it brought a bit of joy for you....it's funny because I decided to post it after reading about your bunnies...and I found it in my cat/bunny file..I keep all my cat/bunny pics together...)enigma4everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06589997090173140019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-38528447957004004872007-08-23T09:33:00.000-04:002007-08-23T09:33:00.000-04:00E- I spoke to my son the other day and he told me ...E- I spoke to my son the other day and he told me how he came across this little kitten in Baghdad. This picture kept flashing in my head. I couldn't recall whose blog I had seen it on. Glad to find it again. Michael is an animal lover. Sad he's not here to see the bunnies.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454344516994289843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-2791243122136748602007-08-23T05:32:00.000-04:002007-08-23T05:32:00.000-04:00If, like the Europeans, we would rise up and shut ...If, like the Europeans, we would rise up and shut down life in the US as we know it for one day, or more, this would indeed get the gov't to take notice. Unfortunately, we are so divided, by work travel etc, it scares too many people. Why? We are paying them, and we still have no say where the $$$ goes. It's major depressing and all you hear is stupid shit about stuph that has nothing to do with our everyday life here and its effect on those around us! ; (<BR/><BR/>But don't get me started. Hope all is well your way. Hot and humid here. ; (Coffee Messiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908162048706236634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-20509981017611481952007-08-23T03:26:00.000-04:002007-08-23T03:26:00.000-04:00It's the mobile phone and the portable CD player w...It's the mobile phone and the portable CD player what done it! The human mind no longer has time to think. <BR/><BR/>It spends 18 hours a day being stimulated by rubbish. Every moment is taken up: wake-up, CD/mobile stimulation, work, CD/phone stimulation, television, bed, sex while answering the mobile and watching the late shows, sleep, repeat!Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798600572745255535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-60465328270631748732007-08-23T02:40:00.000-04:002007-08-23T02:40:00.000-04:00Excellently put, the world we live in at the momen...Excellently put, the world we live in at the moment revolves quite a lot around pain. Pain or turning the other way. <BR/><BR/>It's horrible. I'm so thankful for the people who really do pay attention and to strive to make a difference.vanillabirdieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150799575306171238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-17862674613885923282007-08-23T01:46:00.000-04:002007-08-23T01:46:00.000-04:00telling that we have to go to citizen journalists ...telling that we have to go to citizen journalists for the newsGraemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04230080850680753260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-74440374712285848112007-08-23T01:22:00.000-04:002007-08-23T01:22:00.000-04:00It isn't just the greater concentration of the med...It isn't just the greater concentration of the media into fewer hands since Vietnam. It's also the explosion of superfluous McGadgets, advertised through the more concentrated media, which we use for the purpose of perpetual distraction.<BR/><BR/>There were no walkmans or iPods back then, so people couldn't erect an audio barrier and disengage from their immediate surroundings on a personal level. There were no cell phones for people to use in public places, pretending to be oblivious to all that was happening around them. There weren't hundreds of cable channels for people to get lost in, searching of the perfect form of cheap amusement. There were therapeutic drugs available and in use, but certainly not on today's scale, where Americans just might be ingesting more anti-depressants than the rest of the world combined. And then there's the organized religion of the Christian right, which has been busy, busy, busy turning insecure and seeking people into relieved but mindless empty shells for decades -- a religion of pure distraction.<BR/><BR/>I don't mean to diminish people who've had their eyes plucked out for being blind. But until recently I thought that such people would, at the very least, exhibit an interest in trying to regain <I>some</I> of their vision. Yet so many people aren't even trying. They just don't want to look at what's going on anymore. They're content with their collection of distractions.<BR/><BR/>Sure, our highly concentrated media encourage adopting that sort of attitude. But the final choice on whether to adopt it is ours. I, for one, refuse it -- and in light of what has befallen the people of Iraq since we invaded it based on a pack of lies, I have little sympathy for those who accept it...Jim Yeagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14614500796136679068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-23378174243857595212007-08-23T01:04:00.000-04:002007-08-23T01:04:00.000-04:00The TRUTH shall set you free ... anyone seen it l...The TRUTH shall set you free ... anyone seen it lately ?<BR/><BR/>P.S. Billary speaks with forked tongue !<BR/><BR/>Peace,<BR/>CosmicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-37827024099426499102007-08-22T22:03:00.000-04:002007-08-22T22:03:00.000-04:00Look who owns the media, Viacom, Murdoch, GE and t...Look who owns the media, Viacom, Murdoch, GE and the list goes on of the Corporate elite who own the media and they own the news, and what we hear.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-58236412268596073222007-08-22T21:29:00.000-04:002007-08-22T21:29:00.000-04:00I hope your ready for Iran as we will soon be invo...I hope your ready for Iran as we will soon be involved over there in a new front and war.<BR/><BR/>And as with Iraq, Faux news is leading the way.<BR/><BR/>enigma, have you seen my latest post?<BR/><BR/>God Bless.Anon-Paranoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16689838429335195289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-67650464837415640722007-08-22T19:50:00.000-04:002007-08-22T19:50:00.000-04:00Well I am just stuck wondering what the question r...Well I am just stuck wondering what the question rattling around in your head was? Was it how soon after 9-11 did they first bring up Iraq?Gryphenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356503547155430235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-28129031572330353952007-08-22T17:06:00.000-04:002007-08-22T17:06:00.000-04:00Well said enigma! You never hear the truth fro...Well said enigma!<BR/> You never hear the truth from the MSM today. You hear what they want you to think of as the truth. If you want to find the truth you have to go outside the country and even then you have to search for it.<BR/> Anyway, Some kids you can not tell anything to. I was one as was another brother who volunteered for the marines during Nam but neither of us went for whatever reason. I wanted to be a tunnel rat, go figure, be careful what you ask for.<BR/> I have read every single book from veterans I could find, my favorite was soldier. Anyway you know at least 2 of my sons are in this. The 18 year old that wants to join the marines does not talk to me and neither will his brothers talk about him anymore because I think he is a fool.<BR/> I just got off the phone with one of his older brothers over there flying support and he will leave there in about 10 days. his older brother is volunteering to go back to Iraq to lead his EOD troops as I told you.<BR/> He is a Bush fan despite what I tell them. I will see both of them in October. Anyway some kids have to find out for themselve's and you can only hope for the beast and wish them luck.<BR/> The thing that bothers me is knowing we have been lied to from beginning to end and it just continues. Today the chief idiot was comparing Iraq to Vietnam for his gain with all the wrong examples. He said millions were murdered because we left early. <BR/> Everything he said was a lie. We learned nothing from Vietnam and have duplicated every misstep. The so called terrorists have learned though. Anyway I am just so sick of the blatant obvious lies just so the chief idiot can stay in the middle of that civil war until he can use our military elsewhere there.<BR/> The loss he guaranteed the day he attacked Iraq to get our men and equipment into the middle east was a given day one and that will not be turned around period but will encompass the entire middle east and then spread from there.<BR/> Fighting so called terrorists in Iraq has only worsened things for us in the long run and despite Bush's idiotic rhetoric they will be following us here.jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-58567504436369605662007-08-22T16:51:00.000-04:002007-08-22T16:51:00.000-04:00E4e, excellent article. The warmongers learned fr...E4e, excellent article. The warmongers learned from Vietnam. They spoon feed the MSM, but the media have changed two. What used to be news, is now a mix of infotainment and infoganda. Over 90 percent of all our broadcast and print media are owned by just seven giant corporations and their subsidiaries. Only one thing matters to them: profit. Their main advertisers, multinational corporations, are making big bucks of this war, so they just go along and rake in the cash. They are being a little more honest in the last year or so, primarily because progressive bloggers, dedicated to spreading truthful information, have embarrassed them into it. We matter!TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11397335545286040472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-61320920996623962992007-08-22T15:36:00.000-04:002007-08-22T15:36:00.000-04:00JOSIE: Ohhh , i meant to mention Anderson , thank ...JOSIE: Ohhh , i meant to mention Anderson , thank you Josie- and also if you look over at the top of my blogroll I have Anderson's blog- and it is really interesting- it is a Blog used by Anderson, but also producers etc ( you won't ever ever find Wolf there...it is very interesting).<BR/><BR/>Aaron: here here...you are so right...<BR/><BR/>Cartedge: So interesting...good to hear from down under...we never hear of the what is going on the Aussies etc...it is very frustating....thank you for keeping us up to date...informed...<BR/><BR/>Robert: Hmm, a Major announcement..wow..that is exciting...( as long as you don;t leave us..)enigma4everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06589997090173140019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-66773413023032491802007-08-22T14:35:00.000-04:002007-08-22T14:35:00.000-04:00I think I like Anderson Cooper. I trust him. I'm...I think I like Anderson Cooper. I trust him. I'm not sure I trust many of the others.<BR/><BR/>Our hearts go out to you guys. This really is Vietnam all over again.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06979114933441527890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-63068618278319249102007-08-22T13:41:00.000-04:002007-08-22T13:41:00.000-04:00Its hard to imagine we are journeying back into th...Its hard to imagine we are journeying back into the <I>Heart of Darkness.</I><BR/><BR/>The only real correlation between Vietnam and Iraq seem to be the millions of dead civilians.<BR/><BR/>We do need real journalism. Real journalism and Net Neutrality.Aaron A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01460364105787230701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-21399992691462748462007-08-22T12:49:00.000-04:002007-08-22T12:49:00.000-04:00Drop by Left of Centrist for a major announcement....Drop by <A HREF="http://leftofcentrist.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Left of Centrist</A> for a major announcement.Robert Rousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07029114161553100445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15374623.post-24135945976574143732007-08-22T06:19:00.000-04:002007-08-22T06:19:00.000-04:00Even with a general election in the wind my fellow...Even with a general election in the wind my fellow Australians show no interest at all in Iraq. True we don’t have a big force there, more strategic specialist troops. We also have no real casualties, either in Iraq or Afghanistan. <BR/>But it struck me recently how long it is taking our country to even begin to recognise those we sent to Korea and Vietnam. Many of the latter group are my contemporaries; I missed the draft and certainly had no intention of putting my hand up. <BR/>I hope Australia’s ‘invisible’ troops in war zones now don’t suffer the same fate as those of the two previous conflicts. I don’t see them returning anytime soon, but much as I detest these conflicts I sincerely hope they don’t return as pariahs or are just forgotten this time.Cartledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11929350278316125588noreply@blogger.com